Wow, you guys. Beethoven kicked my butt tonight. Then Bruckner stomped on my groaning nearly dead form, and now I have no voice. Whose brilliant idea was it to program Beethoven's 9th and Bruckner's Te Deum in one concert? Someone who hated sopranos, that's who!

Seriously, Beethoven, who could not hear the tortured noises the real-live sopranos ( Read more... )

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I think anyone who works with kids, has kids, deals with neuroatypical kids or grownups, likes Mythbusters, or likes robots (or children who like robots) needs to read
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If I were superstitious, I'd be feeling very nervous about tomorrow's concert, right now ( Read more... )

Do I have to read Twilight in order to have an informed opinion of Monica Hesse's theory concerning why smart, literate, feminist women find themselves being bitten by Meyer's execrable prose and frightening worldview [warning, link contains some abelist slurs]?

In "Twilight," Edward Cullen waffled between wooing and eating new girl Bella Swan. He ( Read more... )

If these things get any bigger, I'm going to have to rent a church kitchen. Since I love having everyone over to cook, I think this might actually be worth it. When we rented this place, we thought the lovely kitchen would be big enough, but, well, not for 12 people, 7 of whom are actually cooking, and the rest of whom need burners to warm their ( Read more... )

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Row 16 has been navigated.

SSK and KSl inc are my ... umm ... consenting submissives, or something. I have, in any case, mistressed them.

Onward!

In chatting with heliotrope689 about canvas shopping bags and their suitability for grocery shopping, I wound up commenting on a minor aspect of Canadian culture-one that I always forget about, until I'm grocery shopping Stateside ( Read more... )

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